Sematech chief’s Albany talk focuses on collaboration

Daniel Armbrust, president and CEO of the semiconductor research consortium Sematech, will speak at the Upstate Venture Association of New York’s April 11 meeting in Albany. His topic is Sematech and Tech Valley: Why Collaboration Works.

The event will be held at the Holiday Inn at 205 Wolf Road in Colonie from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Armbrust, who spent 25 years at IBM, was named president and CEO of Sematech in November 2009.

The consortium, previously based in Austin, Tex., has shifted virtually all of its operations from there to Albany. It is based at the Albany Nanotech complex on Fuller Road.